Woman turned away from Virgin Australia flight because her wheelchair was ‘too heavy’
Emma Weatherly was preparing to board a flight with her motorised wheelchair — just as she had months before — when she was told the chair was too heavy. The 43-year-old has facioscaplohumeral dystrophy, or FSHD, a cruel and degenerative disease that causes a person’s muscle to waste away. Diagnosed at 28 and wheelchair-bound for … Read more